How to Con Friends and Manipulate People
ISBN
Publisher
Imprint
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9798217270217
August Books
N/A
2026
240 pages
Paperback
26631
Original price was: ₨6,400.00.₨1,295.00Current price is: ₨1,295.00.
A sharply funny, tongue-in-cheek guide on how to find ‘success’ by embracing your inner psychopath.
Description
“The Art of War for the Tik Tok generation” – Donald J Tump (56, Milton Keynes)
Geraint Anderson is a genuine phenomenon.
Ever since he wrote his bestselling memoir Cityboy, which followed Geraint as he embarked upon a wildly successful (and not at all fraudulent) investment banking career, publishers have been begging him to reveal how he climbed the corporate ladder with such ease. Did he achieve his remarkable brilliance through diligence and hard work?
No, he did so because he is a psychopath.
In this remarkable book, Geraint explains that the world is rapidly becoming such a brutal place that soon it will only be psychopaths who succeed – whether the aim is to become top dog in business, politics or, indeed, the clergy. Within these pages, you will quickly learn how to think like a stone-cold killer and, in so doing, become the very worst version of yourself.
This is the first book of its kind – a realistic manual that explains exactly how to be a winner in today’s dog-eat-dog capitalist world. You may not like a lot of what Geraint has to say, but that’s only because it’s radical, disturbingly honest and usually involves a surgical scalpel.
So, stop behaving like a limp-wristed fruit picker and, instead, buy this book. Become what you were always destined to be: a warrior, a winner… a psychopath!
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About the Author
Geraint Anderson (AKA 'Cityboy') is a former hippy who accidentally became a top-ranked stockbroker, a whistleblower, a bestselling author and, increasingly, a cautionary tale to any wannabe brokers out there.
Geraint entered the City in 1996 intending to work for a couple of years and make a fast buck. Instead he spent a decade cheating, lying and occasionally working until he headed up the second highest ranked equity team in the whole of London. During that time he watched high finance transform from a (vaguely) respectable profession into what he later described as “a Wild West casino run by human piranhas.”
Suffering a crisis of conscience, he began writing an anonymous newspaper column exposing the absurdities, egos and psychopathy endemic in high finance. After a near-fatal motorbike accident in 2007 he left investment banking and revealed himself as the column's author. His first book, Cityboy, became an international bestseller, selling over 400,000 copies and being translated into multiple languages.
Since escaping the Square Mile he has written two novels, produced an award-winning feature film, and spent an unhealthy amount of time studying status, power and the psychopaths who seek them.
His latest book, How to Con Friends and Manipulate People (out 2 July 2026), is in many ways a sequel to Cityboy - it is a darkly comic parody of a corporate/self-help book, written in the voice of a charming psychopath who explains how the only way to thrive in today's dog-eat-dog society, whether you work in a multi-national, politics or, indeed, the clergy, is by behaving like Hannibal Lecter.
Geraint lives in the countryside with his wife, two children and a lingering suspicion that the psychopaths have taken over the asylum.
How to Con Friends and Manipulate People
By : Geraint Anderson
A sharply funny, tongue-in-cheek guide on how to find ‘success’ by embracing your inner psychopath.
Description
“The Art of War for the Tik Tok generation” – Donald J Tump (56, Milton Keynes)
Geraint Anderson is a genuine phenomenon.
Ever since he wrote his bestselling memoir Cityboy, which followed Geraint as he embarked upon a wildly successful (and not at all fraudulent) investment banking career, publishers have been begging him to reveal how he climbed the corporate ladder with such ease. Did he achieve his remarkable brilliance through diligence and hard work?
No, he did so because he is a psychopath.
In this remarkable book, Geraint explains that the world is rapidly becoming such a brutal place that soon it will only be psychopaths who succeed - whether the aim is to become top dog in business, politics or, indeed, the clergy. Within these pages, you will quickly learn how to think like a stone-cold killer and, in so doing, become the very worst version of yourself.
This is the first book of its kind – a realistic manual that explains exactly how to be a winner in today’s dog-eat-dog capitalist world. You may not like a lot of what Geraint has to say, but that’s only because it’s radical, disturbingly honest and usually involves a surgical scalpel.
So, stop behaving like a limp-wristed fruit picker and, instead, buy this book. Become what you were always destined to be: a warrior, a winner… a psychopath!
Praise and Reviews
Not available
About the Author
Geraint Anderson (AKA 'Cityboy') is a former hippy who accidentally became a top-ranked stockbroker, a whistleblower, a bestselling author and, increasingly, a cautionary tale to any wannabe brokers out there.
Geraint entered the City in 1996 intending to work for a couple of years and make a fast buck. Instead he spent a decade cheating, lying and occasionally working until he headed up the second highest ranked equity team in the whole of London. During that time he watched high finance transform from a (vaguely) respectable profession into what he later described as “a Wild West casino run by human piranhas.”
Suffering a crisis of conscience, he began writing an anonymous newspaper column exposing the absurdities, egos and psychopathy endemic in high finance. After a near-fatal motorbike accident in 2007 he left investment banking and revealed himself as the column's author. His first book, Cityboy, became an international bestseller, selling over 400,000 copies and being translated into multiple languages.
Since escaping the Square Mile he has written two novels, produced an award-winning feature film, and spent an unhealthy amount of time studying status, power and the psychopaths who seek them.
His latest book, How to Con Friends and Manipulate People (out 2 July 2026), is in many ways a sequel to Cityboy - it is a darkly comic parody of a corporate/self-help book, written in the voice of a charming psychopath who explains how the only way to thrive in today's dog-eat-dog society, whether you work in a multi-national, politics or, indeed, the clergy, is by behaving like Hannibal Lecter.
Geraint lives in the countryside with his wife, two children and a lingering suspicion that the psychopaths have taken over the asylum.